Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-28
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE INDIAN IN SCHOOL. The Results Of A Years sa-s Teaching. PARSONS GIVES UP ALL HOPE. A Startling Runaway At A
 Funeral. DR. M'GLYNN IS STILL FIRM. The Clan-na-Gael Dynamite
 Plot.
DR. M'sLYNN IS STILL FIRM.

THE EDUCATION OF THE INDIAN.
 Interesting Facts Cleaned From the Report TOf superintendent Riley of the Schools.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The annual report
 of John B. Riley, superintendent of Indian
 schools, shows that the government spent $1,-
 O95, ,379 during the last fiscal year for the ed-
 ucation of the Indian children. The govern.
 ment boarding schools used $719,9 ,933 and
 $50, ,299 was paid for the support and educa-
 tion of pupils at contract boarding schools,
 most of which are under control of religious
 denominations. The day schools maintained
 by the government cost $57, 1898 and s9,847
 was paid for the education of pupils at con-
 tract day schools. The whole number of h.
 dian children between the ages of six and sixteen years is 39,921, of this number 14,- 932, or 3715 per cent. attend school some DOT
 ton of the year. The proportion of children attending school varies from nearly one hnn. dred to less than one per cent. at different agencies. It is noteworthy fact, says the report, that where schools have been estab- lished for several years with accommodations for considerable proportion of the pupils the prejudice exhibited by the Indians against education has largely disappeared. Many Indians manifest great interest in the education of their children, while among the Nsvajoes, Utes and others for whom but little in the way of educational work has been done the few pupiMfor whom provision hasl been secured are secured only by strenuous effort. The superintendent depre-
 Lo Ioo oEz i,, fbo If ko1t books used in Indian schools and says it renders futile any effort made by the Indian bureau to direct or control the school room work He recommends that 8 uniform sys- tenn of text books and study be adopted. MT. Riley favors the policy of teaching only Eng fish in the government schools, says that he has tried to impress upon teachers the i'm portance of giving the study of the language constant attention and adds that he has found schools where the pupils, although they had been in school for several years, could not speak English so to be understood. The report says that too much stress cannot be laid upon the importance of preparing native teachers and to this end suggests that normal school department be established at some of the larger schools. It is also suggested that the rndiments at least should be taught Indian children at or near their homes and that the course of instruc- ton at eastern schools be adapted to the wants of pupils who have shown in the res ervation schools special aptitude, and further that none but graduates of the reservation schools be admitted to eastern schools and such pupils be selected by the Indian bureau upon certi6cation of good character and scholarship. The superintendent makes the following recommendations: That an indus trial boarding school be established near the Missouri river, adjacent to the Sioux reserva- tion, that schools be provided for the tribes in Nevada, that Congress be requested to provide for the education of one hundred Indian children to be selected from the tribes living in the State of New York; that com mission be appointed and empowered to make a thorough investigation of the subject of Indian education with the view to so syste- matizing the methods and increasing the facilities as may be deemed necessary. On the whole the report shows an appreciable advance during the year in Indian education.